The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs, sentence 10
Around 1799 the naturalist George Shaw checked the first platypus skin for stitches, and egg-laying was finally proved only in 1884.
Who acts: naturalist George Shaw · What happens: check, lay, prove · To what, where: first platypus skin, 1799, 1884
This is a sentence of the lesson «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (naturalist George Shaw), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 2 1799 | case |
| 2 | 1799 | 1799 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 checked | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Shaw | det |
| 4 | naturalist | naturalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Shaw | compound |
| 5 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Shaw | compound |
| 6 | Shaw | Shaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 checked | nsubj |
| 7 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 skin | amod |
| 10 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 checked | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 stitches | case |
| 13 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 checked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laying | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 proved | cc |
| 16 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laying | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 egg | punct |
| 18 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 proved | aux:pass |
| 20 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 21 proved | advmod |
| 21 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 checked | conj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 1884 | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1884 | case |
| 24 | 1884 | 1884 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 proved | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | the naturalist George Shaw | the first platypus skin | 1799 | for stitches | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent skin=Theme for stitch=Attribute | ||
| 2 | lay | gerund | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | prove | past · passive | 1884 | finally property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:043-platypus-and-echidna.lesson:10.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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